Will, I got it to work with a "text" based pdf, but not a scanned pdf. That's a shame. A lot of pdfs in the legal world are scanned and all the ones I'm working with are from that environment, so most are scanned. :( Greg On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 2:29 AM, Will Stephenson <wstephenson@suse.de> wrote:

On Thursday 08 April 2010 00:01:36 Greg Freemyer wrote:

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All,

Does anyone know how the Okular yellow highlight tool is supposed to work?    I've never used it before.

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I need to review some PDFs and I wanted to highlight sections for myself to come back to.

I tried the yellow highlight tool and it doesn't seem to work.  I can select the tool and a highlighter icon appears in the upper left corner, but I can't figure out how to apply the highlighting.

I've got KDE 4.4 from OBS.

You select the tool and drag across some text.  I've just defaced the KIWI handbook.  Try on a different PDF...?

NB if you use this tool, the annotations are not stored in the PDF - they are stored under ~/.kde4/share/apps/okular.

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On Friday 09 April 2010 01:22:26 Greg Freemyer wrote:

Will,

I got it to work with a "text" based pdf, but not a scanned pdf.

That's a shame. A lot of pdfs in the legal world are scanned and all the ones I'm working with are from that environment, so most are scanned. :(

I guess that the scanned (but not OCRed) PDFs just consist of a lot of images, so what you would want rather than a highlighter that says 'In future render this block of text with a yellow background', one that says 'Draw a 50% transparent yellow rectangle at these coordinates' which happen to be above the image corresponding to some scanned text. Since Okular can draw arbitrary scribbles, I don't think that adding this feature would be very hard. Will -- Will Stephenson, KDE Developer, openSUSE Boosters Team SUSE LINUX Products GmbH - Nürnberg - AG Nürnberg - HRB 16746 - GF: Markus Rex -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 12:24 PM, Don Raboud <don.raboud@ualberta.ca> wrote:

On Thursday 08 April 2010 05:22:26 pm Greg Freemyer wrote:

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I got it to work with a "text" based pdf, but not a scanned pdf.

That's a shame.  A lot of pdfs in the legal world are scanned and all the ones I'm working with are from that environment, so most are scanned.  :(

Greg,

Have you looked at xournal?  That also has the ability to annotate pdf files.

-- Don

Don, I had never worked with xournal, but I can't get it to annotate a scanned pdf either. I did not try with a more normal text based pdf. Greg -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

On Fri April 9 2010 12:06:40 Greg Freemyer wrote:

Don,

I had never worked with xournal, but I can't get it to annotate a scanned pdf either. I did not try with a more normal text based pdf.

Greg

I use Xournal all the time to annotate scanned and non-scanned PDFs. The newest version is available from dkukawka: http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/dkukawka -- Carlos F Lange University of Alberta -- Recursive: Adj. See Recursive. -- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org